Leader of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead bodies discovered during raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 our bodies throughout the search. Local authorities were able to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction laws.

Legislation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations were shared that the group had been consuming the bodily fluids of its leader. After police made their way onto the camp grounds, police then discovered the remains of 11 bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was only in a position to provide death certificates belonging to 5 of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be performed to ascertain the causes of dying of the our bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, but before the arrest a lot of his followers attempted to cease police from arresting the aged man throughout the raid. 

The unusual group was known in the space to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do nearly anything for the person. Some say he would pressure his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and devour filth to be able to heal bodily illnesses.

Cult-like groups should not unusual in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place female students say they were promised religious practice only to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Final 12 months, an elderly monk decapitated himself with a home made device in an try and reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. More broadly recognized is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers call a cult.

The incident has quickly gone viral on social media, with netizens sharing their disgust against the cult’s practices of consuming human waste. The Thai-language hashtag #พระบิดา (#Father) saw over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv shows a girl, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she did not detect any disagreeable odor while consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the girl remarked. “Only these with a tainted mind may smell it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
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One twitter user identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celeb volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious religious cases, moderately than local authorities. 

“It was speculated to be the police that raided this cult in the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter person questioned.

ที่งงคือทำไมถึงต้องเป็นหมอปลาที่เป็นคนประสานหรือนำสังคมไปเจอเรื่องอะไรแบบนี้ ทั้งที่คนที่ควรจะเป็นบุกไปจับ ไปเจอ หรือเปิดเผยมันควรเป็น ตร. หรือ จนท. ของรัฐ ไม่ใช่หรอ ทำไมถึงปล่อยให้มีเรื่องขนาดนี้เกิดขึ้น สุดจริงบ้านนี้เมืองนี้ #พระบิดา

Several tweets describe what occurred as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably within the space of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the country being like this,” another Twitter consumer wrote.
Thai Enquirer tried to reach native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, however they did not reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are nonetheless looking the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. That is an ongoing story and we will have extra particulars within the coming days.